Our favorite titles of the year resurrect overlooked histories and examine how the United States ended up where it is today ...

Accents center on the pronunciation of words, while dialects encompass pronunciation, vocabulary and grammar. Here, the subjects of Grant Wood's American Gothic channel speaking styles popular in ...

James "Little Jim" Guild was convicted of killing a 60-year-old widow with a cow yoke after she scolded him. Despite having ...

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A People’s History of Sports in the United States By Dave Zirin The New Press; 268 pp. The Gist: In A People’s History of Sports in the United States Zirin sets out to deflate the misconception that ...

An expert on political communication explains how Argentina’s history of public lying created a protective barrier between ...

“Whiskey flasks touted their full or honest measure of contents,” Hartman writes. “Medicine bottles listed conditions that ...

Pecans, America’s only native major nut, have a storied history in the United States. Today, American trees produce hundreds of million of pounds of pecans – 80% of the world’s pecan crop. Most of ...

Gratitude doesn’t solve the problems that we face, but it sharpens our awareness of the advantages that we often overlook.